Paper, 'Mr John Keen's wonderfull cure wrought upon Nicholas Hobb of St Endore' by John Keen
Reference number: CLP/12i/59
Date: 1699
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Keen describes an operation performed on a 60-year-old man in St Enoder [Cornwall] in 1696 who had been assaulted and robbed, resulting in a transected trachea. Keen successfully sewed the trachea back together and the man recovered.
Subject: Surgery
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A letter from Dr. William Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy, urg'd from a remarkable cure in chirurgery; perform'd by Mr. John Keen of Roch in Cornwal'.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1699.
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- CLP/12i/59
- Earliest possible date
- 1699
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Mr John Keen's wonderfull cure wrought upon Nicholas Hobb of St Endore' by John Keen, 1699, CLP/12i/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_59/paper-mr-john-keens-wonderfull-cure-wrought-upon-nicholas-hobb-of-st-endore-by-john-keen, accessed on 23 July 2026
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III. A letter from Dr. William Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy, urg'd from a remarkable cure in chirurgery; perform'd by Mr. John Keen of Roch in Cornwal External link, opens in new tab.
Authors: William Musgrave; John Keen
Date: 1st November 1699
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0072
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